Introduction:
    I awoke at 2:15 A.M. When I got to my desk and prayed a while, a certain church and ministry came to mind and these three words came to me: networking, word of faith, and fear of God. I then wrote the following:

    "God is your Source and your Supply. His family is larger than even what you have heretofore conceived. You are part of the spirits of just men made perfect. Your family presently goes beyond even the earthly realm. Your family looks over heaven's portals and cheers you on to run the race with patience, and complete the course they themselves began to run.
    Jesus stands up for this whole generation, even as He stood to receive Stephen. He saw the harvest coming in, even as He saw Stephen lay down his life for the brethren, that they might come in. Jesus stood, as He saw that for which He sowed His own life, coming in in great measure through the Apostle Paul.
    The Holy Spirit, the teacher, rises up within the hearts and lives of men, to teach and lead them into all truth, the truth that liberates and frees all those who will listen to and adhere to Him.
    Now is the time to rise up in Him, in His power, and proclaim the Word of God just as it is, and so release the shackles from off the lives of people who sit in bondage and darkness.
    The light is come. The glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. Walk in the glory of His presence each day."

    As I read over this and prayed in the Spirit, I realized this was for everybody. Then I realized that today was Easter Sunday. As I looked over what I had written, I questioned what the three words meant. This came to mind (for all):
    Networking--by the Holy Ghost with others of like spirit and mind. God is your covering.
    Word of faith--you'll hear more about this as time goes on.
    Fear of God--(giving place to the Holy Spirit) you are receiving a new understanding of the fear of God.
    As I continued to pray and meditate on what had come to mind, a title formulated, "The Historic Resurrection Happening Today". The thought behind this is that God's interest is more than our just rehearsing the historic facts of the resurrection of Jesus on Easter Sunday. He wants Him to come forth in each of our lives in power and glory each day.
    As I continued to pray and meditate on all that I was seeing, different passages that I had read through the past week began to come to mind. I reveiwed some notes I had jotted down on different days. I had printed out a message a few hours earlier, that I had published on the web page entitled, "Discipleship: The Fear Of God". I reviewed this message thinking, "Boy! We all need this!"
        With all these miscellaneous thoughts and ideas, I thought, "Whew, if all this is a single message coming to me, it will have to be the Lord to put it all together!"
    As I continued to pray and meditate and peruse through the Word, it didn't take long for some passages to "come alive" to me. As I fed on the Word, I began to see the pattern, and I state it as follows:

GOD'S DESIRE
    He wants to rise up in power and glory in our lives today. It is the fear of God, giving place to the Holy Spirit, that allows this to happen. The following are ways of giving place to the Spirit that brings the manifestation of the resurrection of Jesus in the lives of people today.

NETWORKING--2Cor.1.8-11a
    For the ministry to operate in resurrection life, there must be faith in God, "in whom we trust", and the help of the saints "helping together by prayer for us". God's people must be networked together by the Holy Ghost to cover each other in prayer.

SPEAKING THE WORD OF FAITH--2Cor.4.5-14
    The ministry must believe that the Word that they speak is the power of God unto salvation to every one who believes. If we believe the Word, we will speak it into our lives and situations, trusting God to confirm His Word with signs following.

GIVING PLACE TO THE HOLY SPIRIT (THE FEAR OF GOD)--2Cor.13.4
    The Word and the Spirit released, is the resurrection power of God released.
The Spirit is the power of God. In ourselves we are weak, but through faith, His life is released in us and through us. Through faith, all that He is and all that He does, becomes our profession and our practice.

    As I continued to pray and read through the Word, I saw all this confirmed from another group of scriptures in a different way.

EPH.1.19,20
    The great power of God is toward us as we believe.

COL.1.28,29
    The great power of God works in us to overcome all things and minister this victory out to others by example to be duplicated. Paul said to duplicate him in 1 Cor.4.9-17, and we see what we are to duplicate in 2Cor.4.5-14.

COL.3.1-5a
    The great power and glory of God will manifest in our lives according to what things we seek, and what we set our affection on.

Conclusion:
    Jesus wants to resurrect, to rise up, in the life of every person today. How?
By our networking together in faith, prayer, love, and in the power of the Holy Ghost, by speaking the Word of faith, and by giving place to the guidance and promptings of the Holy Spirit (walking in the fear of God).
    In this way, the historic resurrection will be happening in our lives today.

Offering promise: Blessed to divide with the brethren Josh.22.7,8
                                                                                                                                                                                                        Easter morn.4-23-00
 

A Thought To Meditate On:
"Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them." Prov.22.5  "froward" = (6141) "distorted, false".
    To "keep" one's soul is liking "keeping a garden". That means to water, fertilize, pull the weeds and grass out, and cultivate it. If we just let out soul go, if we don't "keep" it, a drought will limit the production of the plants or kill them for lack of water. Or, there won't be abundant production for lack of fertilizer. Or, the weeds and grass will grow up and choke out the producing plants.
    Our soul involves what we see, think, feel, hear, and do. It is the receiver of what goes on around us in this world. It gives expression to our mind, emotions, and will.
    If we don't govern or control how we process our environment, then our environment will control us.
    Jesus did not allow anything distorted or false to cling to and dwell in Him. He kept His heart and mind immersed in the Word of God. That was His constant meditation and message.
    When someone came saying, "The girl is dead", Jesus said, "Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made whole" (Lk.8.50).
    The Apostle Paul kept his soul stayed on the Lord. The joy of the Lord was his strength so that he overcame his adverse environment.
Conclusion:
    If we fail to keep our soul, troubles are like constant thorns and snares that plague us. There is a way to overcome thorns and snares. Keep your soul.
    Be sober. Be vigilent. Watch and pray. Don't be careless. Don't put yourself in a position to be crushed. Don't be in a boat with no life jacket if you are not able to swim. Don't drive a car without liability insurance (USA). Keep your soul.
    It is done through faith in and obedience to the wisdom of the Word.
    "Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul." Heb.10.38,39